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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1909)
The Herald D. E. ST1TT, Editor. Entered a leeond-cUu matter September 1. 1908, at the poet office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year Six months $1 50 ct Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, DEC. 3, 1909. NORMAL SCHOOLS AGAIN There seems to be quite an awakening of citizens in various parts of the state as to the im portance of the Normal School and its usefulness to rural dis tricts. Below we give a clipping from the Oregouian, showing the attitude of Superintendent of Public Instruction J. H. Ack erman on this important quest ion with some added comments Declaring that laws must be placed on the statute books of the state requiring every teacher in every district school to have a thorough training before she starts her work in the school, Superintendent of Public Instruc tion J. H. Ackerman, before the county school officers' convention in session here today, came out flatly in favor of normal schools. '"You must get together and c:o beiore the Legislature and de mand that normal schools be es tablished or let the Legislators know the reason why," was one of his statements. "We have normals now, but the training is given for the city children at the expense of the children of the county. Every district school is a normal school. You send the inexperienced young girl out into the country and when she secures training she goes to the city. The child of the city is given his education with the bill footed by the child of the rural district. " Over 100 school officers from all over Marion county were in attendance. Among the speak ers were C. L. Starr, who spoke on the history of school officers' conventions, bein? founder of the plan, and Professor E. D. Ressler, of the Oregon Agricul tural College, who spoke on "In dustrial Education;" J. M. Poor man, of Woodburn, who spoke on "The Responsibilities of the School Director." The position taken by Super intendent -Ackerman and so heartily endorsed by the chair men of the several boards of di rectors of Marion county, at a meeting at Salem, November 27, speaks volumes for the Normal schools of the state. After his long years of close study of the various school questions, and all his manifest interest in the wel fare of the public school system of our fctate; his indefatigable labors to strengthen and broad en the work of the public, and especially, the rural schools and his efforts to stimulate the de velopment, and increase the efficiency of the high schools; after all the careful legislation that has been done effecting the public schools, and in which he is or was most largely instrumen tal, it would seem that none can doubt the advisability of the course he so strongly recom mends. As so plainly set fourth there, the Normal school lies, or aught to lie closest to the heart of the friends of the public and rural sc hools. Having the money and the inducement incident to city life, the cities will secure good teachers, and always at the ex pense of the rural schools; and it is only by use of the Normal school that the rural school can get the best trained teachers. The experience of al the states have proved this beyond any perad venture for they all, save and except Oregon, main tain Normal training, and we believe that Oregon, with her vast possibilities, will soon again give aid to her Normal schools. A simple statement of the case is this: She must have teach ers; the better trained they are, the better service will they render; some one must train them; either the State, the Prot estants or the Catholics. Sup- enntendent Ackerman sees clearly the situation, let us fol low his. wise counsel. x. In the article we published last week from the Valley Re cord, there is no reflection of character nor purpose so far as we can see, upon Prof. E. D. Ressler, who was formerly at the head of the Normal school here, neither was any intended upon the part of the Herald, nor do we attach blame to the O. A. C. as the management of that institution is looking after in terests of their school and town, and likewise Prof. Ressler must be loyal to those whom he serves, besides there is no inti mation that he wishes to see the Normal school leave its old loca tion, but the purpose of the Herald is to inform citizens of this section that they may be alive to their own interests. Other sections look after their interests, and if we wish to profit we must be alive and ac tive as to ours. "Saul hath slain his thous ands, but David his ten thous ands," The above was an ut terance of joy by the Israelite songsters when they went to meet the returning victors, but there is a contrast, today in American amusements that re minds us of the above quotation. 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